Students' affordance of teleologic explanations and antrhropomorphic language in eliciting concepts in physics

• Bautista, Romiro Gordo ^[1]
  1. [1] Cagayan Valley Computer and Information Technology College, Inc., Philippines
• Localización: JOTSE, ISSN-e 2013-6374, Vol. 5, Nº. 1, 2015, págs. 31-40
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This study ascertains the students’ affordance of teleologic explanations and anthropomorphic language in eliciting concepts in Physics as influenced by their age and learning exposure and experience. Using Explicative-Reductive Method of Descriptive Research, this study focused on the determinants of students’ affordance of teleologic-anthropomorphic reasoning to select concepts in Physics: Kinematics, Dynamics, Statics and Introduction to Thermodynamics.  It was found out that the respondents had intermittently committed teleologic-anthropomorphic languages across age and nature of their secondary education. Furthermore, teleologic-anthropomorphic languages were found correctible by classroom interventions as indicated by the test results on age and curricular exposure.